SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!
Archives for “Locals making good”
Tweet If you like politics and you like beer – and who could object to that combination – then there is a local podcast made just for you. Let’s qualify that. The beer is craft beer and the politics is “center to progressive.” Zach Luea, a Democratic candidate for Kansas state representative who lost last [...]
Tweet Four SM East graduates and one Kansas City Christian graduate are among the inductees to Kansas State University’s junior honorary society, Chimes. The students are: McNeil Dolliver, a management major from Prairie Village; Kristen Fischer, a biochemistry major from Leawood; Lauren Fischer, a nutrition and health major from Leawood; Sarah McKittrick, a marketing major [...]
Tweet A small Prairie Village cemetery which dates to the 19th Century is easier to navigate thanks to an Eagle Scout project using 21st Century technology. SM East freshman Logan Bennion focused his project on the Highland Cemetery, which is tucked into the Countryside East neighborhood off Hodges and contains the remains of nearly 30 [...]
Tweet It’s been a wild year for Johnny McGuire. The 2007 SM East graduate finished up college at KU in 2011 with an itch to chase the dream of country music stardom. And after pondering the move for several months, he pulled up his Kansas roots last year and headed east to Nashville, Tenn. Figuring [...]
Tweet SM East senior Ethan Tucker was happy enough to find an acceptance letter to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Art in the mail. But it was the second letter several days later that really put a smile on his face. Because it let Tucker know the school had selected him for [...]
Tweet The Mission Hills home Hollister and Porter Hovey’s family moved into in 1989 needed some work. There was the shag carpeting, for starters, which covered seemingly every floor. And then the gold wallpaper, bright orange formica counters, and a mirror that took up an entire wall in the master bedroom. “It was thoroughly stuck [...]
Tweet St. Patrick’s Day may be behind us, but the Irish spirit is as strong as ever in a group of young northeast Johnson Countians who are making their debut at the World Irish Dancing Championships today in Boston, Mass. The team of eight 8-12 year olds train together at the O’Riada-McCarty-Manning Academy of Irish [...]
Tweet Prairie Village native Cooper Beckett, a Rockhurst High School grad and current Rockhurst University junior, was named the Rockhurst Atheltics Department’s “Hawk of the Week” in February after a solid week on the basketball court. The 6’8″ 190-pound center scored 11 points and six rebounds in a game against Drury College Feb. 3, a [...]
Tweet March Madness may not officially tip off until later this week, but one former SM East student has already enjoyed some of the fun of NCAA tournament basketball. Alison Stephens, a 2010 SM East grad, got to hoist the NCAA Division 3 women’s basketball title trophy Saturday after she and her Depauw University teammates [...]
Tweet If you happen to be downtown this weekend for Kansas City’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, be sure to get a good look at the spirited group of young dancers at the front of the pack. Because the eight 8-12 year olds who will be among the leaders of the parade will be heading [...]
Tweet Three local students are among those named to the Dean’s List at one of the most prestigious colleges in the national, let alone the Midwest. Washington University in St. Louis announced this week that Anna Bernard and John Walker of Prairie Village and Alexandra Keane of Leawood had made the Dean’s List in their [...]
Tweet 2010 SM East graduate Drew McNamara made something of a name for himself in high school with his media production skills, winning the district’s Five-Minute Film Festival his junior and senior years. Now, his other talents have him on the precipice of national fame. After SM East, McNamara enrolled at Loyola Marymount University in [...]
Tweet It’s been a good couple of weeks for SM East senior Gracie Tapp. First there was the news that she had been nominated as a Sweetheart Queen candidate. Then came word that she’d won this year’s SM East theater “Gypsy Award” — given to the most outstanding member of a musical’s chorus — for her [...]
Tweet It’s fair to say that without the inspiration of two SM East-area band teachers, last week’s Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C., wouldn’t have gone off like it did. Because if Meadowbrook Junior High’s Jim Leacocks and SM East’s Al Hanna hadn’t helped foster Jerry Amoury’s love of music, he never may have gotten serious [...]
Tweet The good news keep coming as the University of Kansas continues to announce recipients of financial awards for research and scholarship. SM East grad Micah Melia is one of 20 KU sophomores to be named to the 32nd class of the University Scholars Program. She is the daughter of Tom and Anne Melia. A [...]
Tweet A 1989 SM East graduate has landed the top spot at the city of Boston’s public high school dedicated to the visual and performing arts. The Boston Arts Academy this week announced that Anne Clark has been named Headmaster after a nationwide search. Clark is a founding faculty member at the academy, and had [...]
Tweet Two SM East graduates are among a select group of University of Kansas students to receive funding to conduct research as undergrads. Holly Lafferty and Jason Bates are part of the group of 58 students recently informed they will receive research grants through the Undergraduate Research Award program at KU. Bates, a KU junior, [...]
Tweet Much like two spongy yellow cakes wrapped tightly together under a thin film of plastic, SM East graduates Austin and Zach Hurst look a lot alike. They’re twins, in fact. And if their longshot bid goes according to plan, the 26-year-olds will become purveyors of the Twinkie brand. The Twinkie Twins, you might call [...]
Tweet Your house might not have a “For Sale” sign planted in the front yard. But a 1999 SM East graduate thinks you might be willing to entertain offers just the same. By day, Parker Hills is an engineer with Burns & McDonnell. But after a frustrating experience trying to sell his wife’s Prairie Village [...]
Tweet Kim Stout of the Allegro con Brio choir group that made a trip to Washington D.C. in December sent along some photos of the girls’ trip to the White House, where they sang in the East Wing and got to meet the President and First Lady. The group included two SM East students, junior [...]
Tweet 2010 SM East graduate Janna Graf attracted some nice national attention earlier this month for her play on the Yale University basketball team. Graf earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors the first week of December after two standout performances against Fordham and St. Francis Brooklyn. In those games she shot 10-for-19 from [...]
Tweet Prairie Village mom Shuana Slade is set to make her national television debut tomorrow — from the comfort of her Kansas home. Slade will be a contestant on the syndicated gameshow, “Let’s Ask America” Thursday. The show will air on NBC affiliate KSHB 41 at 6:30 p.m. Each episode “Let’s Ask America” features four contestants [...]
Tweet On Thursday, Whitney Kerr gathered with his extended family on a farm an hour and a half east of Kansas City for their traditional Thanksgiving celebration. His daughter Charlotte was there, up from Dallas, where the 2007 SM East graduate now works as a buyer at Neiman Marcus. Starting a career in the fashion [...]
Tweet In the early 1980s, Nagin Cox spent her days in the classrooms of SM East already fantasizing about a career in space exploration. Today, she’s living her dream, working at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, where she’s on the command team for the Curiosity rover, a mission whose audacious landing on the [...]
Tweet Prairie Village resident Robert Magee and his Munchin’ Hogs at the Hilton barbecue team keep smokin’ up success. The Hogs were named Grand Champions at the sixth annual “Battle of the Brisket” competition at the Mission Arts and Eats Festival. By scoring the highest combined total in judges’ marks for their brisket, ribs, pork [...]
